Activity 20 Online services (download services)

What sort of things can you download?

The sorts of things that are available to download vary from music to videos to pictures. You can do this over a variety of sites including itunes (which is popular at the moment) limewire, bear share and many others. As well as this you can download programs that can then be played on your computer. They can either be downloaded on sites that cost money but are 100% legal and authorised or on sites that are shared.

The purpose of using downloads?

The purpose of using downloads is:-

Saving money
Being able to download more advanced programs and being able to update them regularly
It’s more efficient than buyer programmes and having to install them separately
It’s quicker it can take seconds to download small files
They can be shared so that you c an easily download other peoples files